Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) RALEIGH, N.C. Sen. John Edwards, the mill-town kid turned millionaire lawyer and major presidential candidate, ended his bid for the White House last month the same way he began it: with a political future as bright as the grin on his face. Edwards stepped aside in […]
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Marley Jr. finds his way with Miami Beach store
Knight Ridder Newspapers (krt) MIAMI While his two-month-old twins slept on a couch in the South Beach store with the wooden floors and antique furniture of a Caribbean home, Robert Marley played a DVD on a large flat screen TV and looked wistfully at the highlights of the adventurous life […]
First black reality TV show heads downhill
Argus Reporter College Hill REVIEW What happens when you a producer takes eight black college students on a historically black campus and film their every move? The answer is College Hill, a reality television show gone bad. A couple of weeks ago, many viewers tuned into the first black […]
REALITY TV: Big Dreams On the Screen
Television has been taken over by a new genre of programming-Reality TV. You know, “real life” people exposing their fortunes and misfortunes for all America to see. Why are these shows so popular? What causes viewers to stay glued to the tube?One obvious reason is money. The networks continue to […]
Students stay in college longer
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) DETROIT Angela Samuels is in her fifth year at Grand Valley State University. Her art major is almost impossible to finish in the traditional four years, she said although that’s not what she thought when she started college. “I was thinking the usual four years,” said […]
McDonald’s plans to drop Super Size fries, sodas
The Dallas Morning News DALLAS Chad Johnson doesn’t apologize for eating a lot. He changes truck tires for a living. It’s strenuous work that he says burns a lot of fuel. So he had no stomach for a decision this week by McDonald’s Corp. to slice Super Size french fries […]
Aristide says he was forcibly removed from Haiti by U.S.
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) WASHINGTON The Bush administration on Monday vehemently denied ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s claim that he “did not resign” and was kidnapped” by U.S. diplomatic and military officials. Aristide’s first day in exile, spent in the Central African Republic, was as contentious as his four-year rule, […]
OutKast has CBS apologizing again
A performance at the Grammy’s by the popular recording artists OutKast led to yet another public apology from the CBS network. OutKast’s performance was not sexually offensive, as the one that led to the first public apology was, but it was racially offensive to Native Americans. OutKast’s Andre 3000 came […]
Move over and make room for the Hip-Hop generation
Argus Managing Editor The Hip-Hop Revolution. Some who are reading this do not know the significance of those four words, but whether you understand it or not, everyone is living in it as we speak. In fact, we have been living in it for several years now. According to an […]
WSSU plans $35 million dollar Capital Campaign
Argus Managing Editor A capital campaign to raise $35 million for Winston-Salem State University is off to a good start with $7.4 million in commitments from area banks, alumni and numerous other contributors. Michelle Cooke, executive director of the University Foundations and chair of the campaign committee, described the capital […]